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By Alex Wang Gaming computers are no longer a rare sight. Nearly 3 million people build their own computers each year. However, some people like to go to the next level. Instead of using the conventional method of fans to cool their …
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By Alice Zhong As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hurtles through the uncharted darkness of deep space, it was on target for a brief New Year’s Day rendezvous with Ultima Thule, the most distant and primitive object ever to be explored by humankind. …
Read More »New Reverse Engineering Tool to be Released by NSA for Free
By: Derek Dong In the upcoming RSA security conference in March in San Francisco, the NSA is looking to release a free, reverse engineering tool for the public. The software, titled “GHIDRA”, works as a disassembler. A disassembler is a piece of …
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by David Zhang In Europe, the world’s first hydrogen trains have been launched. According to Alstrom, the railway manufacturer who built the trains, they will be low noise and zero emission. These trains are known as the Cordia iLint, and they are …
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By: Erick Xu Miguel Nuevo, George Cooper and Scott Sandford are the first NASA researchers at the Ames Astrophysics and Astrochemistry Laboratory in Mountain View that provided experimental evidence showing that DNA sugar can be formed in space. In December 18, 2018, …
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by Alex Bo Scientists have been experimenting flying towards space to other planets to discover a new world or a new society. With the ever worsening environmental condition on earth due to pollution, humans may choose to migrate to another planet if …
Read More »Gene Editing Controversy
by Kevin Zhang Recently, the topic of gene editing has become one of controversy. Chinese professor He Jiankui, a biophysicist at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China has announced his work on gene editing. He claims that the …
Read More »Google Employees Make a Stand
By Antonia Zhou November saw Google employees taking part in a worldwide walkout— a stand against their executives, who paid millions in exit packages to their male colleagues after accusations of sexual assault. “Happy to quit for $90 million — …
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